A fully-featured, mature, and 100% open source DMS

API

All of a CKAN website’s core functionality (everything you can do with the web interface and more) can be used by external code that calls the CKAN API.

Datastore

The CKAN DataStore extension provides an ad hoc database for storage of structured data from CKAN resources.

Extend

CKAN allows you to pick and choose which features you want to use for your data portal. Or, you can easily develop your own by following the extending guide!

  • Geospatial

    Advanced geospatial features, covering data preview, search, and discovery.

  • Metadata

    Commonly metadata is provided by default, and additional attributes can be defined as needed.

  • Manage data

    An intuitive web interface allows you to easily register, update and refine datasets.

  • Search

    Rich search experience which allows for quick ‘Google-style’ keyword search and filtering.

  • Themeable

    Completely customize to match your brand. We’ve prepared a theming guide to help.

  • Visualization

    Create data-visualisation views and expose data as line, bar and pie charts.

  • Federate

    Creation of a federated network of data portals which share data between each other.

  • Filestore

    Upload media and image files. Stores files either on the server or in the cloud using extensions.

  • Security

    CKAN Security Practices and Controls


Extensions

Our amazing community has taken CKAN to the next level, creating rich library extensions to save everyone time on development.

CartoDB resource view

by OpenGov  4.89 (12)

Use Carto as a more powerful/performant way to visualize geospatial data in CKAN. And not just visualize, but actually start telling stories as well

Discourse Integration

by OpenGov  4.21 (56)

A new topic is created in the Discourse forum (in a designated Category) for each dataset, organization, and group in the CKAN site. This will

Libcloud support

by open.canada.ca  4.21 (56)

Implements support for using S3, Azure, or any of 30+ providers supported by libcloud to CKAN.

Store resources on cloud storage (AWS)

by Link Web Services Pty Ltd  4.89 (12)

A package of extensions for CKAN open data platform for storing resources on CloudStorage.

Multilingual metadata fields

by open.canada.ca  4.21 (56)

This extension provides a way to store and return multilingul fields in CKAN datasets, resources, organizations and groups. Add the fluent plugin

Organization hierarchy

by Data.Gov.UK - Cabinet Office  4.21 (56)

Organization hierarchy for CKAN Provides a new field on the organization edit form to select a parent organization. This new hierarchical

Managing datasets relationships

by Petar Milic  4.89 (12)

The ckanext-lire (LInked RElationships) extension provide GUI interface for managing datasets

MS Office and OpenOffice Resource Viewer

by Ross Jones  4.21 (56)

This plugin provides the option of using the Microsoft Office viewer for previewing both MS

PDF viewer

by CKAN  4.21 (56)

This extension provides a view plugin for PDF files using PDF.js. Beyond viewing PDFs, this version takes advantage of the latest PDF.js

Active Directory authentication

by NHS England  4.89 (12)

A CKAN extension for validating users against Microsoft’s Active Directory Federated Services (ADFS) Single Sign On (SSO) API.

API Helper

by CKAN  4.51 (240)

This extension is meant to add a few pages that will serve as a friendly interface for the action API.

Line, bar and pie charts

by CKAN  4.51 (240)

This extension adds Line, Bar and Pie charts to CKAN, using the new Resource View that are still being developed on the master branch (currently
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Get started

CKAN is 100% open source and available on Github. View the docs for help getting started, and if you get stuck on anything, reach out to our community.

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CKAN for Government

CKAN is used by national and regional government organisations throughout the European Union, the Americas, Asia and Oceania to power a variety of official and community data portals.

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CKAN for Enterprise

CKAN has been adopted by enterprise organisations in sectors such as resources, energy, pharmaceuticals and finance to publish and manage internal data assets.

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